Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940 vs AMD Radeon R7 M460

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940 and AMD Radeon R7 M460 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940

AMD Radeon R7 M460

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 28 nm
Around 21% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3366 vs 2772
Around 21% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3366 vs 2772

Specifications (specs)
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3366 vs 2772
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3366 vs 2772

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M460

2.8x more core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 13% higher boost clock speed: 1125 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 13% higher texture fill rate: 27 GTexel / s vs 24.00 GB/s

Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 400 MHz
Boost clock speed	1125 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	27 GTexel / s vs 24.00 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 M460

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3366

2772

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3366

2772

Name	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940	AMD Radeon R7 M460
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3366	2772
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3366	2772
PassMark - G3D Mark		1073
PassMark - G2D Mark		206
Geekbench - OpenCL		4999
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		19.679
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		358.673
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.572
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		30.024
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		85.168
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2294
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1767
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2294
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1767

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940	AMD Radeon R7 M460
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 11.0	GCN 3.0
Code name	Ice Lake GT2	Meso
Launch price (MSRP)	$969
Place in performance rating	1222	1224
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Launch date		15 May 2016
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	1125 MHz
Compute units	48
Core clock speed	400 MHz	1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	211 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1690 GFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	845 GFLOPS
Pipelines	384	384
Texture fill rate	24.00 GB/s	27 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Floating-point performance		864.0 gflops
Transistor count		3,100 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x1	PCIe 3.0 x8
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Shared memory		0